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Re:Technology Billionaires Trying to Remake America's Schools by germinalphrase on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @01:52PM (#14499357)
My father was a fine art printmaker by training. In the 1980's he was working in advertising doing (what was then called) desktop publishing. Physical photographs, knives, glue - old school image-making. Making art on the side, he became a very early adopter of digital image making tools and rode the wave as his entire industry was transformed. The tools available to the (what is now called) graphics designer changed completely - but the goals and underlying skills of the job did not. Designers became better designers.

To extend the analogy, I have this feeling that we're putting a great deal of effort into "taking the designer out of the design" rather than making tools to augment the designer's abilities/speed/workflow. Yes - we can probably create a system that can spit out company logos just as "good" as a mediocre designer, but if our best designers are still making do with knives, glue and paint then the entire field is being held back.

There are purpose-build tools for all kinds of professions, but teachers are largely making do with the same processes and tools that they did fifty years ago.

They don't need a LogosmartAI to replace them; they just need Photoshop.

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